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Pictured: Pale lavender
rgb(220, 208, 255)
#DCD0FF

Pale Lavender #DCD0FF RGB Color Code

Pale Lavender (#DCD0FF) is a muted, very light purple. In RGB it is made of 86% red, 82% green and 100% blue (R 220, G 208, B 255). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 255Β°, 100% saturation and 91% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.675, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 14% cyan, 18% magenta, 0% yellow and 0% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a cool color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Pale Lavender color codes

#DCD0FF in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #DCD0FF Valid CSS
RGB rgb(220, 208, 255) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(255, 100%, 91%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(255, 18%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(255 82% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(14%, 18%, 0%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(88.24% 0.0652 296.74) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(88.24% 0.0293 -0.0583) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(85.61% 11 -21.55) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(85.61% 24.19 297.04) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.8546 0.8173 0.986) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.7012 0.6755 1.0396) Valid CSS
Decimal 14471423 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.6755. Nearest web-safe color: #CCCCFF.

Mix Pale Lavender with other colors

See what #DCD0FF makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintPale Lavender and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightPale Lavender and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintPale Lavender and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalPale Lavender blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Pale Lavender in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--pale-lavender: #DCD0FF;
Sass variable$pale-lavender: #DCD0FF;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-pale-lavender: #DCD0FF; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'pale-lavender': '#DCD0FF' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.863, green: 0.816, blue: 1)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.863, green: 0.816, blue: 1, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="pale_lavender">#FFDCD0FF</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFDCD0FF)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #DCD0FF (14.51:1, AAA). Here is how #DCD0FF does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.45:1 on white
APCA Lc 21
Fails AATry #7C709B
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
14.51:1 on black
APCA Lc -82
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Pale Lavender

#DCD0FF next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#DCD0FF stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Pale Lavender

From a dictionary of color names

#DCD0FF comes from the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names, a guide from the National Bureau of Standards. It sorts thousands of old color names into 267 numbered blocks. This code is the center of block 209, which the system calls very light violet. The Wikipedia article on lavender uses it for pale lavender, because some older color books in the dictionary put the name lavender in that block.

Lavender, lilac or periwinkle

Block 209 holds other names too, including lilac from one of the source books. The web color lavender, #E6E6FA, is grayer and nearer to white. Periwinkle, #CCCCFF, is bluer. Pale lavender has a touch more red, so it reads as a soft purple. Black text on it reaches 14.51 to 1.

Pale Lavender in a user interface

A sample app screen with #DCD0FF as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #DCD0FF as it is. On the light theme, #DCD0FF is too hard to read as text (1.45:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #7C709B there (4.52:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Pale Lavender

These schemes turn the hue of #DCD0FF around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#DCD0FF#F3FFD0

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#D0DCFFthis#DCD0FF#F4D0FF

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#DCD0FF#FFDCD0#D0FFDC

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#DCD0FF#FFF4D0#DCFFD0

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#DCD0FF#FFD0F3#F3FFD0#D0FFDC

Square

Four hues 90Β° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#DCD0FF#FFD0DC#F3FFD0#D0FFF4

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#1A0066#2F00B9#4B0DFF#8860FF#C6B3FF

Gradients with Pale Lavender

Four CSS gradients made from #DCD0FF. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #F8F6FF, #DCD0FF);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #DCD0FF, #3C3948);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #D0DCFF, #DCD0FF, #F4D0FF);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #DCD0FF, #EDD6E8, #FFDCD0);

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Shades, tints and tones of Pale Lavender

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Pale Lavender sits at step 200. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F7F5FF
  2. 100
    EEE9FF
  3. 200
    DCD0FF
  4. 300
    C4BAE0
  5. 400
    A69BC6
  6. 500
    8A7EA9
  7. 600
    6F648D
  8. 700
    584E73
  9. 800
    453C5B
  10. 900
    322C43
  11. 950
    1E1B27

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #DCD0FF in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 7047 Telegrey 4#CFD0CF, close (Ξ”E 7.2)Tailwind CSSviolet-200 #DDD6FE, nearly the same (Ξ”E 1.6)CSS color namesthistle #D8BFD8, close (Ξ”E 6.0)

Ξ”E is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (Ξ”E in OKLab). Browse all shades of purple or search the color library.